Glasgow Claymores
Arena: Kelvin Hall {Glasgow} - Capacity {4,000}
Colours: Russian Purple, Silver & Burnt Orange
Coach: Kay Smith {Rated 0} - Since 1953
Previous Coaches Katherine Biggar {1951-1952}
Honours: Supergrid Bronze Medallists 1951
Bronze Bat - Susan McCrossan 1952 & 1953
Most Appearances: 37 Julie Hulatt, & Susan McCrossan
{1951-1953}
Most Goals: 33 - Susan McCrossan
{1951-1953 including 4 hat-tricks}
In a Season: 15 - Susan McCrossan {1952}
In a Match: 3 - Susan McCrossan -
5-5 vs Durham 1st March 1952,
4-5 vs West Yorkshire 15th March 1952,
5-2 vs Essex 26th April 1952 &
7-2 vs Birmingham 19th September 1953
Oldest player: Arline MacArthur 34 Years, 297 Days
vs Middlesex, 22nd September 1951
Youngest player: Sheila Biles 14 Years, 276 Days {substitute} vs West Yorkshire, 15th March 1952
Record Victory: 7-2 at Birmingham 19th September 1953
Record Defeat: 0-10 vs Liverpool 3rd November 1951
Record Attendance: 561 vs Durham 21st March 1953
Best position: 1951 - 3rd - Supergrid Bronze Medal
1952 - 7th
1953 - 3rd - Lost in Play-Offs
Susan McCrossan
Shooter {Rated 4}
Age 18 {05/06/35}
Born: Glasgow
Apps: 37
Goals: 33
Supergrid Bronze Medal 1951
Bronze Bat 1952 & 1953
Susan Ann Lavinia McCrossan holds the all time Glasgow scoring record and has twice been awarded the Bronze scoring bat in consecutive years. The £14 a week former Scottish model of the year married Olympic middle distance runner Alistair Hampton last July.
Jenny Dahl
Centre {Rated 3}
Age 20 {17/03/33}
Born: Kingston-Upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England
Apps: 20
Goals: 4
Supergrid Bronze Medal 1951
Grew up in Glasgow and was part of the debut 1951 team that won a Bronze Medal. Missed most of last season to injury and managed just a solitary game so will feel like a key new signing this year. Has a love of the seas and wants to own a yacht one day.
Sheila Biles
Attacker {Rated 3}
Age 16 {12/06/37}
Born: Budapest, Hungary
Apps: 19
Goals: 3
Sheila Biles was born in Hungary to a British oil-worker father and a Belgian-Romanian pianist mother. Raised largely overseas, especially in Mount Vernon, New York, she returned to Scotland after her father was killed in a car crash. The younger sister of Hungarian-American-British actress Dorothy Biles, Sheila joined Glasgow as a bright, poised prospect and made her debut as a substitute Left Guard on 15 March 1952 and her full debut on 7 June, becoming Glasgow’s youngest player at 14 years, 360 days. Naturally publicity-friendly, she dreams of musical comedy
June 1954
Jean Grant
{Nee Smith}
Right Guard {Rated 2}
Age 27 {26/04/26}
Born: Dunfermline, Fife
Apps: 16
Goals: 1
Jean Smith, grew up in Rhodesia until she was ten. Sadlers Wells Ballerina from the age of 14 until 1953 when she retired and took up Gridball, making her debut at Right Guard in the team that finished third that season but lost in the Play-offs. Married Scottish journalist and broadcaster Henry Grant in 1950
Jill Jackson
Netminder {Rated 2}
Age 17 {29/09/36}
Born: Bristol, England
Apps: 30
Conceded five goals on her debut in 1952 in a 5-5 tie. Was in the Glasgow side who matched their best ever regular season finish of 3rd in 1953 before missing out on a podium place.
Deborah Sellars
Sweeper {Rated 1}
{Career High 2}
Age 31 {24/01/22}
Born: Glasgow
Apps: 36
Goals: 2
Supergrid Bronze Medal 1951
Touring cabaret strongwoman, famed for tearing phone books and bending steel. A former circus acrobat and wartime ENSA performer, she balances glamour with raw power. Known for her meticulous fitness, striking red-gold hair, and fearless spirit as well as being an excellent swimmer. Sellars was part of the 1951 Bronze medal winning team.
1952 Glasgow strongwoman Deborah Sellars demonstrates her strength to the media. She also plays in defence for the Glasgow Gridball team
Julie Hulatt
{Nee Kellan}
Left Guard {Rated 1}
Age 26 {05/05/27}
Born: Glasgow, Scotland
Apps: 37
Supergrid Bronze Medal 1951
Born Juila Kellan, was into athletics as a youth and moved into modelling during the war. Married a Scottish army officer in 1945, taking his surname, Cameron. Her improving modelling career strained the marriage, which ended in divorce in 1950 when she was alleged to have had an affair with Olympic marathon runner Godfrey Hulatt. The couple married in September 1951 with Julia competing under her new married name. Jointly holds Glasgow's all time appearance record and will turn full time in 1954
Kay Smith
{Nee Peterson}
Coach {Rated 0}
Age 39 {07/06/14}
Born: Long Island City, New York, USA
Previous Club: Northumberland {Minor 1951}
5 ft 6 in blonde New Yorker, born to Swedish-American parents. She came to Britain before the war to study elocution and physical culture, married in 1938, and had a son in 1941. A catalogue model and gym instructor, Kay brought poise, discipline and transatlantic polish to early Gridball. She joined the game as Northumberland’s coach in 1950 before moving into the senior ranks with Glasgow, taking them to regular season 3rd place in her first season in charge in 1953.
Rena Heilbron
Forward {Rated 2}
Age 18 {02/10/34}
Born: Clydebank, Scotland
Apps: 28
Goals 4
Supergrid Bronze Medal 1951
Teenage Bronze medallist in 1951 who took time off in 1952 for acting commitments, The pipe and cigar smoking eccentric started 1954 on loan at recently demoted Durham but was quickly recalled
April 1954
July 1954
Former Glasgow Players
Rosemarie Muir - Left Guard - Apps 24, Goals 1 {1951-1953} Bronze medal 1951
Member of Glasgow's debut team, Muir's career was curtailed by injury in Scotland and by the end of 1953, the 28 year old was reserve to Julia Hulatt. Moved in 1954 to newly demoted Durham, acting as mentor for Rena Heilbron who also went to England on loan.
Arlene MacArthur - Netminder - Apps 7 {1951} Bronze medal 1951
The goalie in Scotland's debut season, she left to coach then minor league Stafford the following season, promoting them at the first attempt. Remained in her position as they were immediately demoted in 1953.
Pat Gilan - Forward - Apps 4 {1953}
22 year old who got a brief opportunity in 1953. Was offered out to other clubs in 1954 and accepted the opportunity to join Tamar.